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Update: Shopping.com API module progress...

March 9, 2009
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Update: Shopping.com API module progress...

This project was set aside last June, as I was working on it in my spare time. Shopping.com (aka SDC) is now pushing all it's partners to switch to the Version 3 platform within the next 6 months. Yikes! I figured I need to give this module more priority. Here is the progress so far, for Drupal 6.

What is functional

Shopping.com Categories (I call them channels).

  • Create Channels and sub channels (on the fly)
  • Create taxonomy terms from Channels (on the fly)
  • Create Primary menu items from Channels (on the fly)
  • Make a niche site from Channels (your site is all about baseball, you can choose any categories and sub categories related to baseball)
  • Customize how many results (search, products, attributes, attribute values, reviews, offers etc) within a simple UI (no hard coding)
  • Multiple country support (Drupal supports multi-sites) meaning multiple databases, themes, and individual settings for each country
  • Shopping.com product search with the Drupal search is almost in place (keywords only)
  • 1 hour caching (this might be removed due to SDC terms)
  • Theming - highly themable with css classes and id's built into the xhtml output

What is not supported

The first release will not make Shopping.com products or categories as Drupal "nodes". There is a real good reason for that too. SDC has a clause in most partner terms that state something like "data can not be stored" - plain and simple. That is why I may remove the cache option. Once the module goes into beta I will give SDC a call and see what they think.

If SDC budges and allows data to be stored (or at least recycled) then categories and products will become nodes. That also means the module can take advantage of other Drupal modules like cck, views, voting api, upload (videos, pictures, etc to products / category nodes). Yum!

When?

I can't say yet. I am working on this in my spare time which I don't have much. I would like to get the beta version out in less than 3 months. When the release does come I will post to Drupal Planet and send a message to all those in the LinkedIn SDC group. (read more)